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Image Recognition Based on Nonlinear Equalization and Multidimensional Intensity Variation

비선형 평활화와 다차원의 명암변화에 기반을 둔 영상인식

  • Cho, Yong-Hyun (School of Information Tech. Eng., Catholic Univ. of Daegu)
  • 조용현 (대구가톨릭대학교 IT공학부)
  • Received : 2014.04.29
  • Accepted : 2014.07.16
  • Published : 2014.10.25
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Abstract

This paper presents a hybrid recognition method, which is based on the nonlinear histogram equalization and the multidimensional intensity variation of an images. The nonlinear histogram equalization based on a adaptively modified function is applied to improve the quality by adjusting the brightness of the image. The multidimensional intensity variation by considering the a extent of 4-step changes in brightness between the adjacent pixels is also applied to reflect accurately the attributes of image. The statistical correlation that is measured by the normalized cross-correlation(NCC) coefficient, is applied to comprehensively measure the similarity between the images. The NCC is considered by the intensity variation of each 2-direction(x-axis and y-axis) image. The proposed method has been applied to the problem for recognizing the 50-face images of 40*40 pixels. The experimental results show that the proposed method has a superior recognition performances to the method without performing the histogram equalization, or the linear histogram equalization, respectively.

본 논문에서는 영상의 비선형 평활화와 다차원의 명암변화에 기반을 둔 조합형 인식기법을 제안하였다. 여기서 비선형 평활화는 적응적 변형의 히스토그램 재조정 전처리 기법으로 영상의 밝기를 조정하여 화질을 개선하기 위함이다. 다차원의 명암변화는 인접 픽셀간의 밝기변화를 4단계로 나누어 고려함으로써 영상의 속성을 더욱 더 정확하게 반영하기 위함이고, x축과 y축의 2방향 각각의 명암변화를 고려한 정규상호상관계수는 좀 더 포괄적으로 영상의 유사성을 측정하기 위함이다. 제안된 기법을 50개 40*40 픽셀의 명암도 변화를 가지는 얼굴영상들을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 평활화를 수행하지 않거나 선형 평활화를 수행한 기법에 비해 각각 영상의 속성을 잘 반영한 우수한 인식성능이 있음을 확인하였다.

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